Chapter 379
He Never Noticed Me Until I Loved Someone Else novel Chapter 379
For years, Sylvia had enjoyed nothing but the absolute best. Seraphina’s overseas education and her fashion startup had been entirely bankrolled by George. Yet, instead of an ounce of gratitude, they were acting like they were the victims of some grand injustice!
Faced with Stella’s fury, Sylvia completely lost her composure. “Everything I got, I earned!”
“When he first approached me and said he wanted to marry me, promising to treat Seraphina like his own flesh and blood, I honestly thought I’d found the love of my life. I adored him! But after we married, he started forcing me to dress like your mother, making me wear her jewelry!”
Tears of rage welled up in Sylvia’s eyes. “I tried so hard to make him see me for who I was—that I wasn’t your mother, that I had my own tastes! But he was blind and deaf to my needs! He never loved me; he only wanted a replica of his dead wife!
Since that was the case, I decided to give him the emotional validation he craved, letting him give me enough money and give Seraphina enough fatherly love. We both got what we needed!”
Sylvia’s eyes were bloodshot as she practically spat at Stella. “So, what exactly did I do wrong? What gives you the right to point fingers at us from your moral high ground?”
A chilling numbness washed over Stella. All these years, Sylvia had viewed her marriage to George as nothing more than a transactional arrangement.
Yet, Stella found it impossible to completely assign blame.
In Sylvia’s eyes, the romance she had hoped for was a lie, so she extracted every ounce of financial benefit she could to compensate.
As for George, unable to cope with the devastation of losing his wife, he had desperately clung to a woman who looked like her, deluding himself into believing his fractured life could be made whole again.
Stella couldn’t help but wonder: if her mother knew that her husband had replaced her with a lookalike, would she view it as undying devotion or profound disrespect?